The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 6, sentence 17
But they fell to fighting on the road, and it was too much trouble to go back with what was left of the fruit.
Who acts: nuts, food · What happens: fall, fight, be, go back, leave · To what, where: road, much trouble
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuts, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 fell | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 fighting | mark |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fighting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trouble | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trouble | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trouble | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trouble | cop |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trouble | amod |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trouble | acl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux:pass |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fruit | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fruit | det |
| 25 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | nuts = nut | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | nuts = nut not said here | the road | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | food | much trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go back | to-infinitive | nuts = nut not said here | with much trouble | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | of the fruit | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: of fruit=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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